Choosing a free CMS for an online store

pest2011-02-15 21:48:17

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pest, 2011-02-15 21:48:17

Good afternoon Habrahumans

We are thinking of organizing an online store. The question is which CMS system to choose. Currently choosing between Joomla-Virtuemart, ModX-Shopkeeper and Drupal-Ubercart

Can someone suggest another option.

Please respond with justification for your proposal.

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8 answer(s)

sajgak, 2011-02-15
@sajgak

All three of the products you are considering are add-ons to general-functional CMS. Of course, this is suitable for a small store (I personally did it on modx, participated in finishing this same shopkeeper at one time). But if the store is more or less decent, why not use specialized tsms? The most famous are Magento(shareware), osCommerce(free) and the Russian shareware product WebAsyst Shop-Script. I bring paid options, because. they are really time-tested and you need to choose a specific one according to tasks

Maxim, 2011-02-15
Rumoynikov @RUQ

I like opencart and if we talk about paid ones, then Bitrix. Of the above - Magento is difficult to fight and learn, osCommerce - I didn’t touch it, I don’t know, WebAsyst is interesting and perhaps not bad. Of the add-ons, shopkeeper is very good, but modx and a solid online store are almost incompatible. Most likely, I would use Bitrix. I work with him a lot.

voooz, 2011-02-15
@voooz

Joomla-Virtuemart, pluses - a very large community of developers, minuses - load (although I heard about a recent caching solution, everything was not very good before). I personally don't like Virtuemart, I didn't use ModX-Shopkeeper and Drupal-Ubercart.

Dzen_Marketing, 2011-02-16
@Dzen_Marketing

Drupal now has at least three running builds of an online store, but if you didn’t have experience with Drupal, then I wouldn’t consider it

rtzra, 2011-02-16
@rtzra

I chose between Virtuemart + Opencart. I chose the former for many reasons. I don't regret it. About the load on the server: I have my own piece of iron (although at first I lived on a regular hosting), the average load is 3% of the CPU. Naturally, no hacks for optimization. When I was already setting up a server and was about to move to it, hosting sometimes had disconnections for exceeding the CPU, but I had one of the cheapest rates.

pel0tkin, 2011-02-16
@pel0tkin

Virtuemart slows down out of the box, but only because of the functionality embedded in it, which, as a rule, is used by 30-40%. After optimizing and disabling unnecessary queries, the speed of work is at least doubled.

Puma Thailand, 2011-02-16
@opium

take insales.ru there are cheap options, well, online payments are already screwed there and many problems have been solved.

Vorchun, 2012-07-30
@Vorchun

www.opencart.com/ or www.prestashop.com/
Zend Fw. Russian community and plugins. Lots of themes www.templatemonster.com/ecommerce-templates.php